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5:10pm June 28, 2014

karalianne replied to your post: There are many ways to describe intima…

I was hoping I could help but nope. Too academic and fluffy, not enough concreteness. I want to say it’s kind of like when someone knows what you need without you asking and just provides it as a matter of course, but I’m not sure.

Yeah I’ve been reading through her writing more to get a feel for how she writes.  And she writes about a lot of really important stuff, stuff not everyone is writing about, very innovative things in many cases.  But there’s never, ever concrete examples.  She always talks in abstract generalities.  So that it’s almost like, you either already understand what she means, or you’re not going to understand it at all.  And that’s unfortunate, because with some concrete examples added, her writing could be accessible to a lot more disabled people.  And she’s saying very important stuff at times – things almost nobody is saying, so this is more important than usual, because it’s not like loads of people are duplicating her observations in more accessible language.

Unfortunately, that may just be how she has to write.  I tend not to try to criticize people’s language too much because I know that I often can only write in certain ways, and I can’t always provide concrete examples either.  Sometimes the only way I can write about something is the way I wrote it, period, and that’s as good as it gets.  So I don’t want to put pressure on her to change her writing style, either, and I don’t want anyone to misconstrue this as that kind of pressure.

I did leave a comment on that post though, asking whether she could provide examples, and describing what kind of examples would be helpful.  Not sure if I’ll get a reply or not but it’s worth a shot.

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